How to format your references using the Annals of Intensive Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Intensive Care. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Stern P. Glia. Glee for glia. Introduction. Science. 2010;330:773.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dasgupta PS, Ehrlich PR. Pervasive externalities at the population, consumption, and environment nexus. Science. 2013;340:324–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sturm M, Racine C, Tape K. Climate change. Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic. Nature. 2001;411:546–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hebting Y, Schaeffer P, Behrens A, Adam P, Schmitt G, Schneckenburger P, et al. Biomarker evidence for a major preservation pathway of sedimentary organic carbon. Science. 2006;312:1627–31.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Kowalick TM. Fatal Exit. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Wong T-C, Yuen B, Goldblum C, editors. Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wallace DK. Amblyopia. In: Wilson ME, Trivedi RH, Saunders RA, editors. Pediatric Ophthalmology: Current Thought and A Practical Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 33–46.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Annals of Intensive Care.

Blog post

1. Hale T. 7,000 Bodies From 19th-Century Asylum May Be Buried Under Mississippi University Campus [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7000-bodies-from-19thcentury-asylum-may-be-buried-under-mississippi-university-campus/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Space Station: Russian Commitment and Cost Control Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-99-175.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fine JG. Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Pratt T. ‘If You Fix Cities, You Kind of Fix the World.’ New York Times. 2012 Oct 19;MM22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Intensive Care
Abbreviation	Ann. Intensive Care
ISSN (online)	2110-5820
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine